 Oil: $100 a barrel - or $200?
(Trinidad Express: Wed, 01 Aug) Nine of the last ten serious downturns in the world economy followed a spike in the price of oil, and we are heading for another spike, with oil back up near the peak of $78.40 a gallon that it reached almost exactly a year ago.
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 Cairn India reports £8.7m loss
(The Scotsman: Business: Mon, 30 Jul) CAIRN India, a subsidiary of Edinburgh based oil and gas explorer Cairn Energy, said it had posted a consolidated net loss of £8.7 million in the June quarter.
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 The most dangerous metaphor
(Salon.com: Fri, 27 Jul) Moore's Law inspires runaway techno-utopianism, leaking far beyond the world of semiconductors. What happens if the music stops?
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 Eagle's Eye: Biofuel: Power from the poor
(Central Chronicle: Thu, 26 Jul) Access to cheap and abundannce of energy is a linchpin of modern industry and civilisation. Worldwide every day, we devour the energy equivalent of about 200 million barrels of oil, but much of this energy comes from conventioal fossil fuels.
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 Monsanto takes a punch to the gut
(Salon.com: Thu, 26 Jul) Score another big victory for the Public Patent Foundation: Monsanto's grip on crucial genetic modification patents is weakening.
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 Stewardship Matters
(Groton Landmark: Wed, 25 Jul) The predicted changes to climate and our way of life discussed in part one of this article are almost unfathomable, and it's hard to accept that the responsibility to create a solution and avert disaster lies upon the shoulders of our generation.
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 Plug-in car to hit road
(The Courier Mail: Tue, 24 Jul) TOYOTA is to begin road testing an electric hybrid car that can be recharged simply by plugging it into a common wall socket.
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The day the drilling stopped
